Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia / Todd L. Savitt.
| Author/creator |
Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2002. |
| Description | 332 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction : were Blacks medically different from whites? -- Health and the slave quarters -- Clothing, food, and working conditions -- Other health problems and conditions -- White and Black medicine -- Care of urban and industrial slaves, the aged, and free Blacks -- Epidemics -- Insanity -- Blacks as medical specimens -- Afterword : medicine, slavery, and the historian. |
| Local note | Laupus-ECU authors |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 025200874X |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 80.5 B5 S267M 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |